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MID-15TH CENTURY
Details
A German (Klausen) Pavise
Mid-15th Century
Of wood concave towards the back and of characteristic rectangular form with rounded top and raised vertical band hollowed out internally, tapering to a beak-like projection at the top, the front covered with canvas and gesso painted light red with floral scrolls and with a white fess, representing the Austrian Bindenschild, at the top two shields, one on either side, painted respectively with the red cross of St. George on a white ground, and a six-pointed yellow (for gold) star on a green field, the interior covered with pigskin, with an iron bar across the top of the medial channel to take the top of a supporting stake, fragments of the internal leathers secured by iron nails, and an old Franz Thill Collection label
46¾in. (118.7cm.)
Mid-15th Century
Of wood concave towards the back and of characteristic rectangular form with rounded top and raised vertical band hollowed out internally, tapering to a beak-like projection at the top, the front covered with canvas and gesso painted light red with floral scrolls and with a white fess, representing the Austrian Bindenschild, at the top two shields, one on either side, painted respectively with the red cross of St. George on a white ground, and a six-pointed yellow (for gold) star on a green field, the interior covered with pigskin, with an iron bar across the top of the medial channel to take the top of a supporting stake, fragments of the internal leathers secured by iron nails, and an old Franz Thill Collection label
46¾in. (118.7cm.)
Provenance
The Town Arsenal, Klausen, South Tyrol
Franz Thill, Vienna
Sir Edward Barry, Bt., Ockwells Manor, Bray
Sidney H. Barnett, Ockwells Manor and Claverdon Hall, Warwickshire, Sotheby & Co., London, 5 July 1965, lot 66 (£420 to Lee)
Franz Thill, Vienna
Sir Edward Barry, Bt., Ockwells Manor, Bray
Sidney H. Barnett, Ockwells Manor and Claverdon Hall, Warwickshire, Sotheby & Co., London, 5 July 1965, lot 66 (£420 to Lee)
Literature
Laking 1905, p. 69 (mounted on the wall at the back)
Trapp, p. 164, fig. 9
Trapp, p. 164, fig. 9
Special notice
No VAT will be charged on the hammer price, but VAT at 17.5% will be added to the buyer's premium which is invoiced on a VAT inclusive basis.